The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 26
They would go up-stream in a boat, cut timber for building materials for houses in the forest, and prepare houses of one or more stories on the spot.
Who acts: carpenters · What happens: go up, build, prepare · To what, where: stream, materials, forest, houses, spot
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 stream | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 up | punct |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 boat | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boat | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 timber | punct |
| 11 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 timber | amod |
| 12 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boat | conj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 building | mark |
| 14 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 go | advcl |
| 15 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 building | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 houses | case |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 building | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 building | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prepare | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prepare | cc |
| 23 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 24 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 prepare | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 stories | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 stories | nummod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 more | cc |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 one | conj |
| 29 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 houses | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 spot | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spot | det |
| 32 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prepare | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | would | carpenters = carpenter | stream | in a boat and cut timber | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in boat=Attribute | |||
| 2 | build | gerund | carpenters = carpenter not said here | materials | the forest | for houses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent material=Product for house=Asset | ||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | carpenters = carpenter not said here | houses of one stories | the spot | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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